{"id":675492,"date":"2026-05-16T21:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/675492\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T21:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:48:08","slug":"italian-open-elina-svitolina-stuns-coco-gauff-to-win-thrilling-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/675492\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Open: Elina Svitolina stuns Coco Gauff to win thrilling final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ukraine&#8217;s Elina Svitolina battled to a third Italian Open title following a thrilling three-set win against Coco Gauff in the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old fought back from 4-2 down to win the first set and, despite losing the second on a tie-break, Svitolina responded to claim the decider for a 6-4 6-7 (3-7) 6-2 victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her route to success in Rome has involved earning notable three-set wins against world number two Elena Rybakina, number three Iga Swiatek and now Gauff, who is ranked fourth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Svitolina, whose previous victories in the tournament came in 2017 and 2018, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s very hard to believe it&#8217;s been eight years since I had this trophy and very pleased with the two weeks here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The world number 10 enjoyed a third successive victory against Gauff, having beaten the American in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open and semi-finals of the Dubai Tennis Championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Another tough battle between us,&#8221; admitted Gauff, who also finished runner-up in Rome last year, but then went on to win the French Open. &#8220;I&#8217;m on the other side but hopefully one of these days I can get over that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also praised Svitolina for her impressive run against more favoured opponents as she added: &#8220;You had an incredible tournament &#8211; a lot of long matches against great players so congratulations to you and your team.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s Elina Svitolina battled to a third Italian Open title following a thrilling three-set win against Coco Gauff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-675492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}